Yearly Archives: 2012

This blog first appeared on the Bradford University School of Management blog. Amazon has been one of the stratospheric success stories of the last century, never mind decade. Can you believe it only started in 1993? But with every revolution there are casualties. And last week in the UK we saw one of these, with

This blog first appeared on the Bradford University School of Management blog. As the hurricane starts to batter the East Coast of America, I was this evening asked by BBC Radio Leeds to talk about the impact of shutting down a city like New York. 1. People will be most affected The immediate impact has

This post first appeared on the Bradford University School of Management blog, about whether SMEs could learn from their big business brothers. I think they can – and here are the key themes for this. Theme 1 – I’m simply too busy to think about strategic planning Why? Because SMEs are more likely to be

This blog first appeared on the Bradford University School of Management blog. What are the key challenges for business in this economy? And what does that mean for managers and the skills they need to acquire and focus on? This was the topic at an event that Bradford University School of Management held recently to